Bag-holder.



PATENT OFFICE.

ADEILE A. SMITHQOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BAG HOLDER.

" Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

Application filed January 9, 1908. Serial No. 410,066.

To all whom it may concern." l

Be it known that L'ADELE A. SMITH, of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

tionary, the device saving the burning and staining of hands, which has always accompanied thestraining of. juices in the old way. To attain these objects I have invented the-herein described bag holder which is con-K structed as follows: Out of one solid piece of wire is made a long handle, the wire circle with two prongs 1 and 2 equidistant from a point in the circumference directly oppositethe handle 3. of wire out from the circle and then down then up again and back to circle, as illus-..

trated, the object being to give three props for the holder to rest onwhen placed over jar, the handle is long and the prongs turn down, thus making it im' ossible for holder resting on them to slip own into the jar.

The handle is an extension of the same wire out from circle to the length of diameter of. circle plus length of prong, then arch end of' handle and returnto point where handle diverged from circle,-where it passes once around the other end of wire, extending back the length of the width of wire, as at 4. The aforesaid other end possible to circle.

placed relatively that if lines connected each with two nearest, said lines would form the sides of a' perfect inscribed square those sides would be parallel and other two at right. angles with a line passing 'len thwise through handle and continued throng circle. These hooks are double, the two ends of wire of Each prong is an extension asses two and one half times around both wires of handle as close as At four points on the. circle are attached hooks, Nos. 5, 6, 7,8, so

which they are made, passing around wire circle, and held firmly in place by the tightness with which they are entwined, and also further strengthened by the coating of platiing. The object of hooks is to hang bag or cloth upon. The number of hooks is still further increased by placing one between prongs one between the hooks on each side, and one on each side of handle, midway between handle and nearest hook on each side. It is obvious that the number of hooks may be increased or diminished, as mechanical skill or caprice of the manufacturer may dictate. I

-When it is desired to attach bag holder to wall a screw eye or hook is screwed into wall and attached to end of handle: also a plier brace about twice the length of handle with long ends bended and shar ened so as to stick into'wall, the small en sbeing curved, each forming a half circle, half the circumference of handle close to circle of holder, so

that when closed together they take firm hold of handle. This brace works like a pair of scissors, so that when lon ends are extended andstuck into the wal the short circular ends have a firm grip on handle.

. Having described my invention I claim as new and Wish to protect by Letters Patent, A device 'of the character described comprising a wirebent to form an elongated handle portion and an annular body portion integral with said handle portion said body .portlon having outwardly and downwardly projecting members upon which the device is adapted to rest in combination with a brace member comprising two pointed members pivotally connected to each other, the

lower pointed ends of said members being adapted to stick into a wall or like support and the upper ends of said members eing bent to form handle engaging portions.

ADELE A. SMITH.

Witnessesz D. DOUBT,

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